Visual thoughts — latent tokens, interleaved images, or video rollouts — do not currently improve multi-step reasoning over text-only baselines in frontier models.
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MentisOculi: Revealing the Limits of Reasoning with Mental Imagery
Visual thoughts — latent tokens, interleaved images, or video rollouts — do not currently improve multi-step reasoning over text-only baselines in frontier models.